These bookshops let Chinese readers question their country - now the doors are closing
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How it spread - 4 original reports
Sun, 9 August 2026
1 report- Libération (France)12:48
Sous la pression du pouvoir pro-Pékin, trois établissements ont définitivement baissé le rideau cet été. Les autorités hongkongaises étouffent les derniers espaces où pouvaient encore circuler des voix dissidentes.
Fri, 21 August 2026
1 report- BBC News World22:26first to report
For some mainlanders, Hong Kong's independent bookstores are a window into a different, freer world.
Sat, 22 August 2026
1 report- Index.hr (Croatia)12:36
NEZAVISNE knjižare u Hong Kongu zatvaraju se zbog pojačanog pritiska i racija kineskih vlasti.
Sun, 30 August 2026
1 report- South China Morning Post11:57
An independent Hong Kong bookstore has shut its doors six weeks after a national security police raid, drawing long queues of customers on its final day following four years in business. Readers wound down the dim staircase of a Prince Edward tenement building on Sunday afternoon, with some waiting up to 45 minutes to enter the third-floor bookstore, Have a Nice Stay. The closure followed a mid-July operation by national security officers, who raided the shop alongside nearby Greenfield...